draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-09.txt

[Pekka Riikonen]

A new Internet Draft defining the SILC Key Exchange and Authentication
Protocols is available, and has been submitted to the IETF.

o SILC Key Exchange and Authentication Protocols

   http://silcnet.org/docs/draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-09.txt

   Abstract

    This memo describes two protocols used in the Secure Internet Live
    Conferencing (SILC) protocol, specified in the Secure Internet Live
    Conferencing, Protocol Specification [SILC1].  The SILC Key Exchange
    (SKE) protocol provides secure key exchange between two parties
    resulting into shared secret key material.  The protocol is based
    on Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm and its functionality is
    derived from several key exchange protocols.

    The second protocol, SILC Connection Authentication protocol provides
    user level authentication used when creating connections in SILC
    network.  The protocol supports passphrase (pre-shared secret)
    authentication and public key (and certificate) authentication based
    on digital signatures.


Changes to previous draft:

o Clarified text in Abstract and Introductions.

o Added detailed description of the implementation of IV Included flag.

o Other small text clarifications.

 	Pekka
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  Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
  Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)       http://silcnet.org/